Tag Archives: debt
Continuum
“An economist,” Laurence Peter says, “is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” He was the famous inventor of the Peter Principle – the belief that once a labourer rises to a … Continue reading
Dominos
Take a good look at this picture – a throwback to an earlier time that was great for those in the photo and not so good for their subjects. There’s Gadaffi in his early years as the new ruler of … Continue reading
300
The big question: “Why are we wasting 400 million dollars on an election campaign nobody needs?” A valid query, except that’s it’s about 100 million dollars off the mark. Two years ago, in an election campaign called by Stephen Harper … Continue reading
The Sour Smell of Success
The Bank of Canada’s Mark Carney released an update on the Canadian economy yesterday that told us third-quarter growth has been disappointingly less than expected and that the next four quarters will also fall behind expectations. He then informed Canadians … Continue reading
Liberalism – The National Mirror
Heading into our last few posts on liberalism, it’s time to determine how people of liberal temperament can apply themselves to some of the significant challenges mentioned in earlier posts. For one thing, how do liberals re-engage with a society … Continue reading
Voting For Junk
It should have been a walk in the park for the opposition parties, but the politics of it all was just too alluring to put the ten per-center issue to bed. We talked about this before in these pages, but … Continue reading